Deputies Escape Liability for Detaining Wrong Man for Three Days

A claim that Florida deputies violated the constitutional rights of a man they arrested and held for three days before concluding he was the wrong person may be dismissed, the en banc Eleventh Circuit said Friday.

Because the arrest was made pursuant to a valid warrant, the detention didn’t violate David Sosa’s substantive due process rights, the opinion by Chief Judge William H. Pryor said.

The Martin County, Fla., sheriff’s office twice arrested Sosa on an 25-year-old outstanding Texas warrant for another David Sosa. Although he was released in a matter of hours the first time, he was detained for ...